Yoga Poses for Anxiety
Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? These yoga poses for anxiety can help you calm your mind and find your center.
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9 Yoga Poses for Anxiety Relief
Some of these might surprise you.
Cat Pose
How to avoid falling into autopilot while practicing this basic—but beneficial—stretch.
Cow Pose
Bitilasana is an easy, gentle way to warm up the spine before a more vigorous practice.
This Is the Secret to Getting More Out of Your Forward Bends
“Going deeper” into your pose has nothing to do with how it looks.
Bound Angle Pose
Bound Angle Pose, or Baddha Konasana, opens the deepest part of the hip muscles.
These 4 Restorative Yoga Poses Will Completely Reset Your Mood
When you need to approach any situation—or, let's be honest, life—from a calmer place, this quiet practice is your solution.
Staff Pose
It might look straightforward, but there's more to Dandasana than meets the eye.
Seated Forward Bend
A simple pose that's anything but easy.
Legs Up the Wall Pose
There's a general consensus among modern yogis that Viparita Karani or Legs Up the Wall Pose may have the power to cure whatever ails you.
Why You Should Laugh, Sigh, Yell, & Even Sob During Your At-Home Yoga Practice
Feel free to let it all out.
Easy Pose
Don't let the name fool you. If you're used to sitting in chairs, Easy Pose (or Sukhasana) can be quite challenging.
Extended Triangle Pose
Extended Triangle Pose is a quintessential standing pose that stretches and strengthens the whole body.
These 7 Yoga Poses Will Help You Relax (Even If You’re Really, Really Stressed)
If you're notoriously bad at relaxing, these calming poses will help you release *everything.*
Bridge Pose
Setu Bandha Sarvangasana can be whatever you need—energizing, rejuvenating, or luxuriously restorative.
Standing Forward Bend
Uttanasana will wake up your hamstrings and soothe your mind.
These Practices Will Allow You to (Finally!) Let Go of Stress & Anxiety
Release your tension and relax with these grounding practices.
Start Your Day With This Grounding Yoga Flow
In this 13-minute practice, you'll connect with your breath—and open your upper body.
Can’t Relax? This Yoga Practice Is For You
Here come the deep sighs.
This 16-Minute Practice Will Release All Your Stress and Anxiety
Goodbye, stress. Hello, peace.
Camel Pose
Bump up your energy (and confidence!) by bending back into Camel Pose. Ustrasana counteracts slouching and relieves lower back pain with a generous, heart-opening stretch.
10 Grounding Poses to Balance Your Vata Dosha This Fall
Ever feel as airy and unstable as leaves swirling in the wind? That's your vata dosha out of balance. This slow yoga practice will help settle your energy and bring you back to calm.
Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose
Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose, or Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana, offers a deep, vivid stretch to the side body paired with loving and heart-opening movement.
Why Is Child’s Pose So Insanely Calming?
We've seen an explosion of memes about Child's Pose over the last year and a half. Coincidence? We think not.
Bow Pose
Bend back into the shape of a bow to feel energetically locked, loaded, and ready to take aim.
10 Steps of Yoga Nidra
Release stress and tension by learning the yoga practice for ultimate relaxation.
Boost Your Immunity and Relax Your Body With This At-Home Yoga Practice
Clear stagnation with this refreshing sequence that stimulates your lymphatic organs.
Conquer Fear with These Grounding Yoga Poses
Soothe anxiety and strengthen your body with this centering yoga sequence.
3 Truths About Anxiety That Can Help You Feel More Like Yourself
To lessen anxiety, you first need to understand it.
Energy Medicine Yoga: Relieve Anxiety with a Simple 30-Second Practice
Need some grounding? Lauren Walker shares an Energy Medicine Yoga practice to find calm.
How to Form a New Relationship with Your Anxiety
Whether you suffer from an anxiety disorder or experience bouts of more mild anxiety, here are seven specific ways your yoga practice can help you find relief—both quickly, and over the long haul.
3 Kundalini Yoga Meditations to Release Anxiety
Meditation is a procedure of cleansing the mind and taking out the garbage in the subconscious. These three Kundalini practices passed down by Yogi Bhajan will help you release conscious and subconscious fears that cause stress, worry, and anxiety.
9 Yoga Tools to Calm Kids’ Back-to-School Anxiety
While anxiety is natural, yoga and breathing techniques can help students handle the pressures associated with peers, workload and making the grade. Try these 9 yoga tools with your kids for a stress-free start to the semester.
Happiness Toolkit: Why an Eye Pillow Is Your Stress Rx
Bo Forbes tells us why the humble eye pillow is one of the most powerful tools for healing, health, and happiness—and how to use one.
Happiness Toolkit: Two-Minute Restorative Poses
Got two minutes? A short restorative practice can help edit and transform negative inner narratives that reinforce anxiety and depression.
A Yoga Sequence to Train Your Brain to Relax
Chronic stress 
and anxiety 
signal the brain to wreak havoc on your body. The secret to hitting reset? Yoga.
A Sequence to Beat Restlessness + Prep for Meditation
Sitting for meditation at the end of a hectic day can feel difficult. This sequence can help you shift gears and transition smoothly into calm.
Yoga for First Responders: 5 Strategies for Stress + Trauma
Police officers, firefighters, and others who face extreme stress and trauma on a regular basis can find peace in asana, breath, and affirmation.
Try This Calming Trend: Forest Bathing (Shinrin-yoku)
Spending quiet time in wooded areas is viewed as good medicine in Japan, and the practice—Shinrin-yoku—is catching on here.
Yoga for Teens: 9 Poses to Beat Back-to-School Jitters
While anxiety is natural, experts say certain yoga postures can relieve students’ first-day nerves. Start school stress-free.
Beat Butterflies: 9-Step Pre-Date Practice for Teens
Big night out? Nerves are normal. Fortunately, yoga can help you to relax and put your best self forward.
6 Steps to Tame Anxiety: Meditation + Seated Poses
Tame anxiety with this short meditation and seated sequence.
How Yoga Calms Anxiety Holistically
For those suffering from 
anxiety, yoga can be a lifeline. 
Here’s why doctors are 
increasingly recommending 
it as a complementary therapy.
Let It All Go: 7 Poses to Release Trauma in the Body
Colleen Saidman Yee offers poses from her new memoir, Yoga for Life, to release anxiety and trauma from body parts that commonly hold it.
Alexandria Crow’s Meditation for Anxiety
Not drugs, therapy, or even asana quieted this yoga teacher’s anxiety. Get the trick that worked.
Patanjali Never Said Yoga Is Fancy Poses
Teacher Alexandria Crow explains why yoga’s biggest benefits have nothing to do with mastering advanced asanas and everything to do with mastering the mind.
Healing Heartbreak: A Yoga Practice to Get Through Grief
Move through and beyond loss with a practice that opens both heart and mind, offers strength and comfort in the present, and prepares you for the next leap of faith or love.
Yoga for Anxiety: Overcoming Panic Attacks with Yoga
A panic disorder had Rashel Fitchett sick with anxiety and fear, until pranayama helped restore peace in her life.
In Need of Some Deep Breaths? Try These Pranayama Breathing Practices
You'll feel calmer and more centered after these practices.
Beating Breast Cancer
Yoga proves to be an ideal approach to self-care for cancer survivors.
How Yoga Nidra Benefits Mind and Body
A proven antidote to anxiety, yoga nidra has been adopted by veterans, recovering addicts, and average stressed-out people.
Beat Anxiety with Breathwork
Relieve anxiety naturally with poses that unlock your breath.
More Than a Toe Touch: Standing Forward Bend
Learn to pay more attention to how you come in and out of Uttanasana and less to where you end up.
How Yoga Can Help in Times of Financial Stress
How can I not freak out in uncertain economic times?
A Beginner-Friendly Inversion: Shoulderstand
Inversions are considered some of the most essential of yoga poses. Start getting the benefits of being upside down.
Positively Prana: Yoga Your Way to a Happier Mood
Yoga teacher Rod Stryker explains how yoga can help you unlock your life-force to feel happier and energized all day.
Use “Bee Breath” to Get Anxiety to Buzz Off
Try this pranayama technique, sometimes called Bee Breath, to soothe anxiety.
Have Anxiety? Practice Asana
Learn how you can melt away anxiety's grip on your body and mind with a tension-taming practice.
Upward Salute
Urdhva Hastasana translates to "Raised Hands Pose," but it is also sometimes called Talasana, the Palm Tree Pose.
Q&A: How Can I Ease Performance Anxiety?
Shiva Rea offers tips from yoga and Ayurveda for calming nervous energy and anxiety.
Feel Happier: Poses for Depression & Anxiety
Battling depression can feel like a fight for your life. Yoga can help you stop struggling.
Yoga For Anxiety: How to Let Go and Ease Your Mind
Therapists are catching on to what yogis have always known: Yoga for anxiety is one of the best ways to ease your mind. Melanie Haiken talks about how yoga has helped her overcome anxiety.
Is Yoga Better than Prozac?
Check out Amy Weintraub's author page.
Asanas for Anxiety
So many poses, so little time: It's easy to get overwhelmed just trying to figure out which asanas might calm you down.
Nadi Shodhana Pranayama: Channel-Cleaning Breath
Sometimes considered a preparation for pranayama, other times a formal practice in itself.
Extended Puppy Pose
A cross between Child's Pose and Downward-Facing Dog, Extended Puppy Pose lengthens the spine and calms the mind.
Big Toe Pose
This pose gently lengthens and strengthens even stubbornly tight hamstrings.
Upside Down
Check out Judith Hanson Lasater's author page.
Fish Pose
Boost the body's energy and fight fatigue with Fish Pose, or Matsyasana in Sanskrit, while building confidence with a loving stretch in the shoulders. It is said that if you perform Matsyasana in water, you will be able to float like a fish.
Half Moon Pose
Say hello to leg and ankle strength as you seek stability and extend into this balancing pose, Half Moon Pose.
Salutation Seal
Practicing Anjali Mudra is an excellent way to induce a meditative state of awareness.
Head-to-Knee Pose
Janu Sirsasana, or Head-to-Knee Pose, is appropriate for students of any level and melds a forward bend with a spinal twist.